Monsanto Company said it will give $3.6 million through a partnership with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and other federal agencies as part of an effort to help monarch butterflies. The partnership with the U.S. agencies is meant to support habitat restoration, education, outreach and milkweed…

Charles Bolden is the NASA Administrator. Today, we launch an American astronaut and a Russian cosmonaut to live and work in space for an entire year — the longest continuous stretch an American astronaut will have been in space.

By Paul Lienert DETROIT (Reuters) - Honda Motor Co has joined Daimler AG's Mercedes-Benz in testing self-driving vehicles and technologies on private roads at a former U.S. naval facility outside San Francisco, the Japanese automaker said Tuesday. Honda also is a partner in the University of…

Michael Stonebraker is a living legend in the database world. Friday afternoon, I had the honor of speaking with Stonebraker by telephone, to congratulate him for being this year's recipient of the Association for Computing Machinery's "Turing Award" for his groundbreaking contributions to computer…

By Joseph Menn SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A security company has discovered a computer spying campaign that it said "likely" originated with a government agency or political group in Lebanon, underscoring how far the capability for sophisticated computer espionage is spreading beyond the world’s top…

The Aral Sea is shrinking, leaving a dried-up white lakebed where there used to be blue water. The image actually combines three separate radar scans: the red parts show data from Oct. 17 2014, the green from Dec. 28 2014 and blue from Feb. 14 2015.

Could Greater Washington be one of the big three in biotech beside other market leaders like, say, Boston? MedImmune, the research and development arm of AstraZeneca, was hosting the first Maryland Regional Biotech Forum to chart a course for elevating the region's reputation into the top three by…

"That's the anthrax building," a colleague told me several years ago, pointing to a squat reddish-brown brick building in the middle of Fort Detrick, for many years the U.S. Army's center for biological warfare research. Cinderblocks now sealed up all of the doors and windows. Inside, anthrax -- a…

As NASA prepares to send more spacecraft, and eventually humans, to Mars, its scientists are having to rethink the parachute. To address this problem, NASA is trying to develop alternatives with the Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator (LDSD) program, and it's looking at what is basically a high-tech…

Geckos can hang by their toe hairs, scamper up walls and regrow their tails. Geckos are amazing creatures with a toolbox full of tricks that science is continuing to uncover. How do dirty geckos take a bath? Geckos are covered with hundreds of thousands of tiny, hairlike spines that trap pockets of…

(Reuters) - Swiss drugmaker Novartis is digging deeper into cancer immunotherapy, one of the hottest areas of drug research, through a tie-up with Aduro Biotech worth up to $750 million. The move comes as the privately owned California-based biotech group prepares for a $86 million initial public…

While earning her Ph.D. in chemistry at Washington University in St. Louis, Natalie LaFranzo, 29, spent hours in the lab developing techniques for studying how neurons communicate. At graduation, she jumped to a St. Louis startup that contracts with academic, government and industrial labs to do…

By Ben Hirschler LONDON (Reuters) - A hot new class of drugs designed to help the body's own immune system fend off cancer by blocking a protein called PD-1 is going to be big - but not nearly as big as investors think, according to a new analysis. Former top Nomura analyst Amit Roy, who now runs…

The "Meidum Geese," as modern-day Egyptologists and art historians call it, was supposedly found in 1871 in a tomb located near the Meidum Pyramid, which was built by the pharaoh Snefru (reign 2610-2590 B.C). A man named Luigi Vassalli discovered and removed the painting, which is now located in…